Yonaijosuijo Weeping Cherry Trees

Yonai water purification plant is founded in 1934 and is opened to the public according to the time of the bloom of a cherry tree (at the end ofordinary year April-at the beginning of May). There is about 30 of YAEBENISHIDAREZAKURA here in the inside of the hall, and I bloom the latest time at Morioka. There is also a tree which becomes an estimated age of the tree for 90 years by something old.

Kaminohashi Bridge Ornamental Railing

Kaminohashi which connects Honcho area and Kaminohashi area is the landscape which seems to be Nakatsugawa river,,a castle town and Morioka.Nanbu Toshinao of a Nanbu seigneur is the bridge it spanned at the same time as Morioka castle is built. Bronze Giboshi Bridge Handrail Ornament which displays a rail is something when founding, and is inherited importantly up to now. There is 10 sets of something of 1611, and 8 sets of one by which among 18 sets of Giboshi Bridge Handrail Ornament and inscription of 1609 were cut is authorized by a country designation important art object.

Oninotegata(Demons’ Hand Prints in the Rocks)Mitsuishi Shrine

There are three big stones in Mitsuishi shrine, and a legend which also derives from a prefecture name in Iwate is left. When the people worried by demon's villainy as an ogre before prayed to Mitsuishi's god, you got rid of a demon. And when he never did them wrong, an ogre pushed a draft towards a rock. This will be the history of the name in Iwate, and the dance by which people danced then is called origination of "Sansa Odori".

Gohyakurakan (Hoonji Temple)

Hoonji Temple where Morioka is five piles of one. An arhat is in line so that he may cover a wall in an arhat hall. An arhat hall was produced by 9 sculptors of Buddhist image in Kyoto between the 1731-1734. 500 beginnings were made, but 499 bodies exist at present. The image made Marco Polo and Khubilai is also seen in the inside.

Mikoda Morning Marketplace

Mikoda Morning Marketplace is held throughout the year, and this is also an unusual thing nationwide. When a producer begins to line the goods from the dawn front, and a day rises, I bustle with a local person. Fresh vegetables, fruit, arranged flower and ready-to-eat dishes equal. A local person as breakfast is here here, too, and popular ones are Ramen Noodles and HITTSUMI. Coffee after meal is also recommended.

Morioka Tsunagi Hot Springs

The hot spring where you're enjoying as a drawing room in the back in Morioka in an edge in Goshoko Lake. The place-name as "link" is derived from Minamotono Yoshiie's connecting a favorite horse with a stone and resting before. There are 6 sources and hot water as much as 2000 liters per minute is gushing. The hot-spring quality is Simple sulfur spring and highly, ph is learned about as hot water of a clear skin with 8.7-9.5.

Ryukokuji Temple’s Morioka Weeping Cherry Trees

The weeping cherry tree in the precinct is designated as a country designation natural monument by the endemic botanist's Miyoshi Manabu found. Further, while Katsurahara Taigetsu where I'm an uncle of Ishikawa Takuboku was 1871-1895, Ryukokuji was serving as a chief priest. Takuboku in boyhood often visited a temple and had guidance of poetry from Taigetsu.

Morioka Handi-works Square

"I see, touch and create it." but Morioka Crafts of a concept, folkcraft product and food are the facilities where traditional local industries were collected. Nanbu Senbei, Nanbu ironware and Aizen's kobo equal in the site, and a craftsman can visit the state which functions imminently. There is also an experience program it's possible to make only the work with which while receiving the craftsman's rudiments.

Morioka Hachimangu

It's built by 1680 and Nanbu Shigenobu. Agriculture, industry, commerce, study and food, clothing and shelter are the hinda Wake life which is a god of a root of a human life (the 15th generation Emperor Ojin), and a deity is collecting reverences in an area from the past. Many people visit in worship in case of new year's visit to a shrine in January, nude coming, Regular grand Festival in 'Setsubun' of February and September and Yabusame.

Nanshoso

Businessman from Morioka and the one Segawa Yasugorou built as a house around 1885. It also lacked a garden in style of garden that features a path around a pond for several years and was made. A building consists of an adjoining room of a tatami-floored and a hall in a boarded place, and a hallway in a boarded place circles that. Beautifully, the garden seen from there makes them feel taste in four seasons. A garden is designated as a protection garden in Morioka-shi and a preservation structure, and is designated as registered monument.